Podcast #6

This is the sixth episode of the StackOverflow podcast, wherein Joel and I discuss the following:

A mercifully brief critique of Joel's Skype avatar. Of course, he should be using this image.

The other programmer I'm working with, Jarrod, will be visiting me this week. It's his first visit to California! Welcome to the San Francisco Bay area -- geek mecca. We will get some pair programming time in.

As usual, thank you for all the questions and for the Wiki edits! We appreciate all the interest in the private beta signups, too.

We also answered the following listener questions, with a lot of peripheral discussion on related topics:

Warren Henning: Why custom build stackoverflow.com when you could use something off the shelf?

Andrew Hay: Why did you choose to reinvent the default ASP.NET membership provider?

Martin Wallace: Have you considered open sourcing the stackoverflow.com code?

Daniel Thompson: What should be in the next version of Windows, and is it worth spending hundreds of dollars to upgrade?

If you'd like to submit a question to be answered in our next episode,
record an audio file (90 seconds or less) and mail it to podcast@stackoverflow.com. You can record a question using nothing but a telephone and a web browser.